100% BRS Reef Saver rock 'tanks'

[Ashish Patel]

100% needs to be cured. My current batch was started in January and finished in august. Ran with GFO to remove the phosphates that leeched. Realistically it was prob ready after 60-90 days but I wasn’t so I just let it soak.

Edit: just saw this thread was brought back from the dead. Sorry!

You must have had a dead mouse in the rock.

 

[Ashish Patel]

haha JK

 

[Scorpius]

This reef saver rock leaches a ton of phosphate so curing is a must.

 

[siggy]

Jumping in, What is man made and what is mined from buried dead reefs ? I always believed the natural rock(mined) was free of phosphates ...Just curious

 

[Scorpius]

Jumping in, What is man made and what is mined from buried dead reefs ? I always believed the natural rock(mined) was free of phosphates ...Just curious

Reef Saver rock is mined on dry land and I've found it to leach quite a bit of phosphates during curing/cycling. YMMV.

 

[lakai]

The stuff is made of calcium phosphate

 

[Nooooooooob1]

It's a 75g with about 50lbs of the reef saver rock (the link in my signature has details on the setup if you want to know more).

Very nice! My new tank is a 75 gallon with 29 gallon sump. I'm looking forward to the new open door of larger fish options. How does your yellow tang do in the 75? I know it's an "on-the-fence" size tank so I'm still unsure of whether or not I should stick a tang in it.

 

[madweazl]

Not well; the tang is fine but the other fish pay the price for it being in the tank. Dont do it is all I'll say; I hate the fish and regret putting it in there because of its aggression.

 

[Ashish Patel]

I never registered Phosphates using reef saver but then again I added it to my tank and had a refugium from day 1. I never suspected there where phosphates leeching from the rock as the rock remained white for 3+ months and I was running high PAR

 

[King Turkey]

I have my whole tank brs reef save rock started. It was one lonely summer day drunk internet shopping starting my reef tank. My wife giving me that glare like I just cooked her cat. I baught my first reef tank excited stacking my online shopping cart full of all the stuff I need. Behold I saw that last ingredient to successfully start my tank. Reef saver rock. I believe my tank is a pretty normal tank started like many others going through the ugly phases. Finaly stable but yet still.. no coraline algae.